On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Jerome Vouillon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:59:05PM -0400, Melvin Smith wrote:
> > The hole I see is not having a Perl6 grammar to toss about.
> > You must sift through the apoc/exe pile to formulate it. Regardless of
> > which approach is taken, I'd like to see a BNF style grammar floating around
> > before we talk tools.
>
> I have started writing a Perl 6 grammar:
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~vouillon/parrot/parser.y
> It is far from complete, and certainly not very accurate, but it may
> be a good start.
You beat me to it. I was going to start just about now.
Anyway it looks nice, and should be able to parse some perl6. I didn't
notice any hyperoperators (^+, ^*, ^@&Z*#:*) in your grammar, but I didn't
look that closely. One thing that I'm pondering is how to do the
{ $^foo } thing. We need to detect that somehow other than an
infinite-token lookahead.
'Course, with my mad context-free skill (HA!), I'd know exactly what's
easy, right?? Someone who knows more what their doing, is there a
semi-easy way to detect this?
> -- Jerome
>
